On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 02:44:11PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:28:30PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > exist in the wild yet. All we would lose is support for a few files on
> > > Oded harddrive, if at all.
> >
> > And all we would gain is 2 lines of code less
>> And support for extremely weird but valid files. And the protection
> against idiots writing muxers that generate such broken files in the
> future!
>> Hint: if the two reference demuxers don't support broken files, people
> probably won't make broken files. But if the one really popular
> (included in ffdshow) demuxer supports broken files, folks writing
> muxers might misread the spec just like Oded did and write code that
> generates bad files, not noticing that the files are bad because "hey
> it plays fine for me!" This is why supporting broken NUT files is a
> VERY VERY BAD IDEA!
If you insist remove it.
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